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Concepts : where cognitive science went wrong

by: Fodor, Jerry A

Publication date: 1998

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

[xii], 174 pages ; 24 cm

"A condensed version of this material was presented as the 1996 John Locke lectures at Oxford University"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Philosophical Introduction: The Background Theory -- 2. Unphilosophical Introduction: What Concepts Have To Be -- 3. The Demise of Definitions, Part I: The Linguist's Tale -- 4. The Demise of Definitions, Part II: The Philosopher's Tale -- 5. Prototypes and Compositionality -- App. 5A. Meaning Postulates -- App. 5B. The 'Theory Theory' of Concepts -- 6. Innateness and Ontology, Part I: The Standard Argument -- App. 6A. Similarity -- 7. Innateness and Ontology, Part II: Natural Kind Concepts -- App. 7A. Round Squares